Exactly.
Heck when you think about it...lifespan potential without calamity is 80 yrs....80 summers at best...how many summers can the average individual recall in that period of time? 50-60 ? maybe 70 at best....
80 yrs seems long....but put it in the proper context....80 summers...it seems awfully freakin short. I have packed half that time already with study, good works, family, friends, and fun...no regrets at all if I get taken out tomorrow by a steamroller
Considering the show you mention...I heartily suggest you look up a great film from the early to mid 80's
It was called DeathWatch
It is the future...as in... right around the corner a few years...or decades or possibly hundreds....there is still people dying...but they do it far away in some war...or tucked away in an old age home...out of societies sight. Disease and illness and cancer are curable with either operation or medication...So the population is completely out of touch with the human process....enter the big media conglomerates ....they find a middle aged person with a completely inoperable condition who WILL die. Enter Harvey Keitel great camera man who elected for surgery to have cameras implanted in his eyes...Every camera man's dream come true...what he sees IS film. So he gets to know the protagonist without her knowing she is being filmed and broadcast to a civilization starved for this kind of understanding.
A great film...won't say more than it really seems eerie that this film was done before the concept of reality television was foisted on us all.